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"He went out that first year in the Florida State League and was pretty dominant for an 18-year-old kid who didn't really play real good high school baseball. He was very dominant. The average time of his fastball for the whole year was 95 miles per hour. The minor league people told me. No one else could do that."

Bref shows his age at 20, not 18. He would turn 21 in December after his first minor league season.

Carl Everett was the Yankees' first pick in 1990 and he was a teammate of Taylor's in Taylor's first pro year.

so was Mariano--I've never looked at Rivera's minor league totals. His first year, he was a full-time reliever (1 GS out of 22) with a rather astonishing WHIP of 0.462 (as a 20 year old). His next year, he was split evenly between starting & relieving. Then in his next 5 years of minor league ball, he was used exclusively as a starter. Maybe this is common knowledge..

I noticed Mariano on that team and looked at his minor league stats for the first time too, but I assumed everything about him was common knowledge. I never knew Everett was drafted by the Yankees. I always thought he'd just shown up at somebody's spring training one day, like he seemed to for the next 15 years.